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Computers (Century Date Change)
Mr. Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what funding is presently committed from his departmental budget for (a) 1997-98, (b) 1998-99 and (c) 1999-2000 to resolve the year 2000 computer problem; and if he will make a statement. [11892]
Mr. Fatchett: This Department's current cost estimate is £3 million--excluding the cost of replacement office automation systems, which will be millennium compliant, introduced before March 1999. We do not yet know the likely cost breakdown over the period in question. We will submit costed year 2000 plans to the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency by October 1997, in accordance with central requirements.
Congo
Ann Clwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) what efforts his Department is making to monitor the human rights situation in eastern areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; [12091]
- (2) what plans he has to refer the human rights record of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to (a) the UN Security Council and (b) the Organisation for African Unity; [12092]
(3) if he will make a statement on the human rights situation in eastern areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [12090]
Mr. Tony Lloyd: I will write to my hon. Friend shortly.
Burma
Mr. Love: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what action he is taking against the State Law and Order Restoration Committee regime in Burma; what plans he has to support sanctions against the regime; and if he will make a statement. [12225]
Mrs. Fyfe: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what action he is taking to encourage the UN to investigate the conditions in the Karenni relocation camps in Burma and the activities there of SLORC forces. [12241]
Mr. Fatchett: I will write to my hon. Friends shortly.
Karabakh Conflict
Mr. David Atkinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what are the new proposals of the three co-chairmen of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe Minsk conference for a settlement of the Karabakh conflict; and if he will make a statement. [11984]
Mr. Doug Henderson: I will write to the hon. Member shortly.
Cambodia
Mr. Mullin:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) what
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discussions he has had with other European Union countries regarding recent events in Cambodia; and if he will make a statement; [12014]
(3) what representations he has made to the Government of Cambodia following the recent coup d'etat; and if he will make a statement; [12012]
(4) what consideration he has given to the withdrawal of Her Majesty's ambassador in Phnom Penh following the recent coup d'etat by the minority party in the coalition Government established after the supervised elections; and if he will make a statement. [12013]
Mr. Fatchett:
I will write to my hon. Friend shortly.
Mr. Winnick:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when the hon. Member for Walsall, North will receive a reply to his letter of 26 June concerning a constituent; and why no acknowledgement has been sent to him. [11985]
Mr. Fatchett:
My noble Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs will write to my hon. Friend shortly.
Ms Rosie Winterton:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he expects to announce the preferred bidder for the private finance initiative contract for the British embassy in Berlin; and if he will make a statement. [12278]
Mr. Fatchett:
The Department has selected Bebcon, a consortium of prominent German contractors and financiers, as the preferred bidder for the new British embassy offices in Berlin.
The embassy will be built to a design by Michael Wilford and Partners, winners of the 1995 embassy design competition, on the site of the pre-war British embassy in Wilhelmstrasse. Under the eventual contract, Bebcon will finance, construct and then manage the building for 30 years. Building work will start around the end of this year, and the embassy staff will move into the new building in autumn 1999.
This is the Department's pathfinder private finance initiative overseas estate project. European Union competition procedures and British Government private finance initiative guidance have been followed throughout.
Ms Rosie Winterton:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the forthcoming business in the Council of the European Union for August; and if he will list major EU events for the next six months. [12279]
Mr. Doug Henderson:
The information is as follows:
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(2) what reports he has received on the involvement of Cambodian Government officials in the drugs trade; and if he will make a statement; [12089]
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Entry Clearance
Ms Rosie Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he intends to lay before the House the 1996 report by Dame Elizabeth Anson, the independent monitor of refusal of entry clearance where there is no right of appeal. [12266]
Mr. Robin Cook: The report was laid today. Copies have been placed in the Libraries of the House. I welcome the report and note Dame Elizabeth's recommendations, which will receive careful consideration.
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